The fire regime of Senegal and its determinants

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-53

  Nielsen, Thomas Theis ^a   Rasmussen, Kjeld ^a   Mbow, Cheikh ^b   Touré, Assize ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c Third World Forum Dakar   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Fire regimes; Natural resource management; NOAA AVHRR; Remote sensing; Savannah fires; Senegal

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; FIRE; LAND DEGRADATION; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING;

SENEGAL;

EID: 0042829124     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2003.10649478     Document Type: Article

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